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The phenomenon of “weathersoft” was briefly popular in 2016. “Weathersoft” referred to using mallsoft production techniques except presenting the music as filler or recycled broadcasts from The Weather Channel and similar sources instead of PA systems in malls. Your Local Forecast by Chemical Hypnotist is a new full-length out on DMT Tapes FL that brings back this style of production. […]
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EDEN is a prime example of modern “dreampunk” music – a style pioneered by the Dream Catalogue label in late 2014/early 2015 with albums from 2814 and the like that featured cinematic ambient music rooted in cyberpunk that sometimes featured sampled material overlaid with synth dreamscapes. Perhaps that’s too poetic of a description, but it’s a poetic subgenre of electronic […]
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DMT Tapes FL has released a new full-length from Chemical Hypnotist titled UTOPIAN DREAM WINDOW. This release incorporates pure classic-style vaporwave with production edits of extant pop music and R&B, often with a highly ebullient vibe. These are the kinds of tracks to sit back in the sand with a margarita in hand. Choice track is “Misty Sand”. This album […]
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Sunset Grid just release a four-way split between vaporwave and vaportrap artists ☒, Chemical Hypnotist, b l u e s c r e e n, and ΔCID.rar. Each artist has three tracks, with each side (if you consider digital releases as having sides) having one track from each. The songs are all vaportrap and vaporhop music, satisfying the cravings of […]
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Seikomart is a sister label to Sud Swap Audio Brewing and Botanica1 and is bona fide Japanese (unlike so many other vaporwave labels). Corridors in Time is a collaboration album between bluescreen and Chemical Hypnotist. The result is an ambient, hypnagogic trip through sixteen tracks that evokes wandering mindlessly through empty hallways. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check […]
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This one is trippy. Δ by Chemical Hypnotist (released via Sunset Grid) is ten tracks of vaportrap music mixed with ambient vaporwave. Think less Blank Banshee and more Windows 98の and STΛQQ ƟVERFLƟ. There’s a substantial downtempo influence as well. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below: Δ by Chemical Hypnotist 0
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Know Yourself is twenty tracks of pure classic-style vaporwave available on Sunset Grid. Songs follow the samplism of 骨架的 and related artists in taking from nameless easy listening and muzak sources with heavily pitch/tempo-shifted production effects. Give it a listen and feel like you’re back in 2011 vaporwave. It’s available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Check it out below: […]
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